face; surface; aspect

Builds 67 distinct compound words — ranked #95 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: メン
訓 kun: おも・おもて・つら

A surface, and a side of an issue. 面白い interesting, 場面 a scene, 面接 an interview.

The ten most common compounds built on 面. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

67compounds built

1,026times those words occur

#57by productivity alone

#170by how often it turns up

Where 面 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 面. Each one opens its own map.

一one一面#2 的-ic, -ish; target全面的#33 地ground; land地面#45 全whole; all全面的#58 目eye; ordinal marker真面目#60 場place; scene場面#77

Words built on 面

面白いおもしろい356 uses

直面ちょくめん69 uses

地面じめん66 uses

面めん57 uses

面倒めんどう47 uses

一面38 uses

真面目まじめ37 uses

表面ひょうめん27 uses

場面ばめん22 uses

面するめんする21 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.